•/ Battalion I E DITORI ALS W * i y > Rage 2 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1947 fNjLwV New Student Government... • With the approval of a new form of atu- dent government by the Dean of the College. . A&M has emerged from a mire of confusion and bewilderment in the realm of student af fairs. Drifting along not knowing exactly who was responsible for what, students have had little sense of self-government. Things apparently “just happened,” with ho obvious motivation or guidance. . Now, however, with the new student rep resentative type of government, school pd- : itics should be more directly ih the hands of the student body. This plan differs from previous forms of student government employed at A4M in. that it will work on three different levels, and will be built around a group of 34 student representatives elected from campus dormi tories and student housing centers. Five standard committees and one guid-. ing or senior committee to be known as the Student Council, will be selected from and by tlje 34 student representatives at their first meeting. Basic problems will be handled by these standard committees, but those items lying beyond their scope will be referred to the Student Council. Matters pertaining to policies of the college and finance, will be referred through the Student Council to the Student Ufe Committee. This committee will be made up of the cadet colonel, the corps executive officer, senior and junior class presidents, the Bat- ‘talion co-editors, ten faculty members and fohr members elected from the student body in; a general election. • With these three main branches function- in|; in harmony, there should be no need of overloading any one person; one of the worst faults of previous student governments. ; Through the five standard committees, . which will work constantly, the mess hall, hospital, and Exchange Store will be checked from day to day for Irregularities which would infringe upon student rights. In ad dition, a reception committee will operate for the purpose of greeting viaitine delega tions to the campus, and ah election com mittee will be set up to supervise campus elections. One difficulty in the set-up has alfeady been pointed out, but it is ft difficulty that can be corrected. Committee members will be chosen from s small group, which may not include those beet suited for the particular task. Again if there are two men, capable, willing to wo#k, but both living in the same dormitory or area, only one can be elected a student representative, and the college cannot make use of the talent of the other. So we suggest, that each standing com mittee, be allowed to choose from the school at large one other student who will also be come a full-fledged committee member. This would certainly help in making sure that manpower was not wasted, and that the committees really function. Students will have the right through their student representative to subtnit their own ideas on campus affairs to the standard committees, Student Council, or Student Life Committee for proper action. This is a con dition that has never before existed on the A&M campus, and which will tend to place all students on a more equal footing, insuring a fair representation to many gtoups, who prior to this time have had no voice in the student body, On paper, this student government looks superior to any we have had previously. Boon we will be called upon to select the men who wiQ make It work. If good men file for office; if the beet of the candidates are chos en; if the representatives when elected take their responsibilities seriously, we should have at A. A If. a student government of the highest calibre. •Up Borrowed Time Can Prove To Be Profitable Flotsam a Jetsam "St/tci debris for ell to By Dave Btuci and Mack Noun —* Th* tsU Mr. Wsbster of diction- 1 As MacKenzie Sees It. *. • Bow to Verdict or Stand Alone Is Russia’s Poser By Dr WITT MarKENZIC AP P»r«*ia Attain Analyti One tumultuou* w«ek has pou-4 •d since the western democracies, paced by America, opened their offensive in the United Na- major Too Much Ragweed in Austin... the University transmitted to me through the the ; With regret, the Battalion rea4a the dis- nutchcs from Austin telling of the Dobie • Not too many years ago, the University gested that 1 try some of the "new c of. Texas had a substantial aoadMftlfttrepu- vi>tn|*d for the tresUnent of bay fe tation and wah climbing fast into the "gold- 'h hsd asid that I have tried, en*. dosen” of the top U. S. achools. Two mqn contributed more than any others to-this reputation; J. Frank Dobie. teach erof English, founder of the “South- •»WM ■upport foeut world attention on the threat to pence produced by Rumia'i tac tics for Afire* •it*, expansion of Crxnmuniun — and already global opinion a ■ represented in the U. N. ha* rendered a veh ement verdict condemning Rod method*, ■arrinff the her satellite*, the Ho- which Russia claims is designed to rive America control of western Europe, was being earnestly stud ied in both Washington and Paris without regard to Soviet oppoei- tion. The program developed by the 16 nation! in the French capital it divided into two parts. One is a long term proposition under which America would provide fit,- :n(i.ooo,(»oo through the years 1948-61 for general rehabilitation. The other is an emergency call for food and some other pressing necessities. west School” in literature and Pulitier Prize historian, was one of them. The other was Dp. T. S. Painter, now president, bio-genetic ist who hid carried further the work of his fofmer colleague Muller, who last year re ceived the Nobel Prize in genetics. • 'This past week, Dobie and Painter have stqed on either side of a line drawn in sand, defying each other to “draw me over." This should have been a battle of titans. But what happened? Read these statements to the press: Dobie . *1 told President Painter that I did not want to resign from the University and did not want to be fired, also that I was not going to teach this fall. ' “I told him that only once during the last 10 years or so have I taught in the Uni versity during the fall; that 1 never expected to stay in Austin again during the hay fever season and that I would not consider it fair to either my colleagues or students to start in teaching and then pull out for the last six weeks of the fall term. “Under date of June 26, the president of vl»t Union >Un4 per school year, j News contributions may be made win Hall- Claselfiad ads Stay be placed iln H* ar College of Texas and th* City led every Monday through Friday th* summer The Battalion ia pub- by tolepho i by toieph ne ( 4-8444) or at the editorial office. Room !0l, Good- (4404) or it the Student Activities Offic.. Room 100, Goodwin Ball. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for re peblkatien of all tad to B or riot otherwise credited in the paper sod local news at spontaneous * Rights of rejmbilcatkm of all other matter herein art a)*o marvad. i Mofeatchee eredi published herein . Knurr! as s*eo*4-etaw Ratter at fjst Otfm at Cottas* Station. Tstas. unSw i? 4* d Ceeer— * Msrrk ». HT*. Member Associated (ollegt. Press CHARUE MURRAY, JIMMIE NELSON T lav, DbVM rirgOwe* - Mark T. Notan , Louta Mores*. Xasnath bo^4 A D. Bruo*. J» . Honor! -WW* MM* Feature Uttar Faature Writer* ' iT •apewanto aattanslhr to Nottanal A! irilfiNi fcwtoa. las. at Ns* fsti C*W. ; kka#u Um hseolw. an! Sea Fra nr taro (V Editor* • wriw . Ban LaaforS. W o. w. K Cotritta. U Omjr. .... L.itom wmmn • - -CtVtOCMBtBU AtoarttaR# Mnnaerr EDGARTOWN, Max*., Sept. 24 (AP)—The cowboy song is the only genuinely Americas music at the present time, says Bernard Wagenaar, New York comgetor. Tile Dutch-born musician, how ever, say* that th* outlook la promialng for the creation of m- rious music “essentially American." Whan an authentic American style comes, he aays, it will not ba based on folk music, at ia the na tional music In Europe. “Aside from th* cowboy songs," he claims, “there Is no genuine folk music In this country. Although he describes cowboy music a» “ottroettvr and Interest ing," Wagenaar adds. "It t* hard ly th* background for serious mu- sic in th* larger fonsa." “Negro music is not Americdn folk music,' 1 he explains, “It Is Afrisan In origin. Our Indian mu sic M Indian rather than Ameri can. Kentucky ballads are an Inher (tone* from England. Crvolo song* are French, “Out of such Ingredient* you can't make a genu toe American salad—-something must be added.” Wagenaar bcUeves that such music will arise from “th* fueing of nationalities in Otis country, udding, “It la not something that chn be attained by ^reperataly striving for it “That soirit which will be call ed typically American will moat likely be marked by two very strong American characteristics— a healthy exuberance and a c! ing sentimentality." Wagenaar, who Kao lived In th* United Staten for 27 years, working on bis fourth symphony. were named end why C. P. Melton of Mercedes says Arp, Tex., was named for e news- C iper editor—Bill Arp of the At- nta Constitution. He's one of the few newsmen honored in Texsf by having a town named for him. Mel ton said Arp was both established and named by his father after s previous name—Strawberry — had b,-« n turned down by the postof- fiee department because there were so many others named Straw berry. Iraan was named for Ira G. Yates snd hia wife Ann, on whose land the town la built save Mrs. Mae Sammons of Midland. (Inci dentally, there ia a town named for Mre. Semnion-' husband — Sammons, Tex., near Mission.) n (pronounced Pay' Coes, as very good Taxan knows) waa nsm- rd for s Spanish explorer. Post, Tax., waa named for C. W. Post, noted cereal manufactur er, Han Perlite was named for the wife of on* of I hr founder* of Willacy county. Her name waa Peerl, Another valley town named uftor a woman ia KMa. Another Is Donna, writ** Mr*, ft. C. ftodri- guet of MeAlten. Robert B. Price Was elected president of the Kream and Kow Klub for the Fall semester at special meeting of the club Mon day night. Other officers elected at last night’s meeting are: E. V. Nietney cr, vice president, D. C. Kolberg, secretary-treasurer, snd F. W Moore Jr., Ag. Council represents live snd eulb reporter. D. C. Marsh instructor of dairy production, was elected as the new club sponsor. He succeeds Prof. A. V. Moore who has been sponsor for the past 6 yean. After the election of officers and chib sponsor, the new pnxy ap pointed a program committee and a social committee, coos is ting of 3 men each. Before adjournment. Prof. A. L. Darnell summarised the history of A&M dairy cattle judging teams snd explained the National Dairy Show to be held at Watorloo, Iowa next week. DeLUXE CAFE — Bryan — Where all Aggies meet “We Sam the Beet" Tlan LADD DOIOTMY UMOUt sown HUSTON UOVO NOUN . ; , • —Alaq NEWS — M-G-M C ARTOON GUI ON HALII WEDNESDAY — THIRHDAY M-O-NTt HCHNICOLOt PtIZI PICTUMI LACK’S Auto Stores JOE FAULK, '32 Southside 217 8. Main College Bryan ft-ll# i: MM Ponitiotift Open In Civil Service C ommiMion Mis for “the Th* Civil Bei ennounces examinations po.itions of Vocational Instructor (Agriculture) | and Instriictnn. (Culinary), (Dairying), (Truck Gardening), (Carpentry), (Elec trical), (Painting and Decorating 1 (Plumbing), (Machine Shop), and (Power Plant). Entrance salaries range from 12495.60 to 23,021.00 per year. Employmaat will ba with the Federal Correctional Institutions at La Tuna, Seagoville, and Tax arkana, Texas. Application forms and further information may be obtained from H. N. Yardiey at the poet office. AOOODFtSO. New York Cafe III i. Main Bryan m ATTENTION Bryan Field Agglcit! Leave your ihoea to be repaired at An nex Exchange Store. Prices seme aa at Campus Store HOUCK’S Boot Shop N. Gate — College TtCHNKOtOR Fill theYearlin WAL eftKOOftY JAM PICK ; WYMAN am rictuti r CONING: FRIDAY A SATURDAY “Brute Man* ft % U i 1 * ^ “Getting Gertie’a Garter" COMING: h—And etopriu sum « me net • Nttodu m m